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Commonwealth Bank

Elizabeth Knight
The banking industry and the federal government will be set for a showdown if the Financial Services Inquiry recommendations that call on banks to bolster expensive capital, in an exercise that could...

Elizabeth Knight, Matthew Knott and Jonathan Shapiro
Treasurer Joe Hockey says he is prepared to take on powerful interests in the financial services industry to boost Australians' retirement incomes and increase competition in the banking sector,...

Nassim Khadem
Australia maintains one of the lowest GST rates in the OECD, a new report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development shows, building the case for the issue to be looked at as part...

Markets

Adele Ferguson and Ruth Williams
For Timbercorp, the key to moving product was 'inciting' financial planners and accountants to push the schemes on their clients – with the help of fat commissions and a range of other...

Jonathan Shapiro
Investors in bank hybrids are nursing unexpected losses that experts say were triggered by Commonwealth Bank’s mega-hybrid issue in October, which has proved too large for the market to digest.

Siege

Matt O'Sullivan and Clancy Yeates
Thousands of white-collar workers from some of Australia's biggest financial institutions have been evacuated from buildings in Sydney's CBD or told to stay inside as a siege takes place in the...

Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson
Corporate Australia would do well to study the way supermarket giant Coles handled explosive allegations of “unconscionable conduct” that will include a review of up to 220 suppliers with...

ASX

Max Maxon
The Australian sharemarket has started the week on a down note, dropping to a three-week low on the back of unexpectedly weak US labour data and a number of local blue chips going ex-dividend.

Adele Ferguson
One of the country's biggest real estate agencies Ray White has stunned the financial services industry by setting up a financial planning arm at a time when the sector is suffering from a crisis in...